On 09.11.2011 20:05, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
I agree we should do a gui release as soon as possible - if I tested correctly, the latest gui release 0.20.0 doesn't work the the latest base, 1.23.0. I would like to get the changes you suggest in (font rewrite and filter services), but on the other hand, I think doing a release soon is more important - the font rewrite could be quite a lot of work - and we can simply remove the ImageMagick and Ghostscript image reps for now.
That sounds like a reasonable plan.
As for the new cairo backend I added to back, we can either release with it or not. The resize flickering is definitely worse, but it supports some 16-bit configurations that were previously unsupported, and performs better over SSH.
Not sure about this, on my machine the new surface works reasonable fast, although resize is a bit slower then before. But it may be different for other machines. We could, as long as we still have the code for XWindowBuffer in place, make this a runtime option?
btw, I have an experimental branch of back at svn+ssh://eri...@svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/back/branches/ericwa-experimental , which only supports x11 and cairo with the new surface. The goal is to try to clean up XGServerWindow/Event, and get rid of all legacy or "magic" code. So far I deleted a lot of code from XGServerWindow, deleted XWindowBuffer, and got rid of styleoffset support. One of the changes I made (I think in XGServerWindow ) got rid of the resize flickering, the only problem is, I'm not sure exactly what the change was. Anyway, it's encouraging, at least.
How does the interaction between GNUstep and X work without knowing the style offset? I think we needed that to position windows correctly. I will have a look at your branch soon.
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